Samsung preparing iTunes rival

The Register reports Samsung's digital music service will be launched together with the YP-K5 digital audio player later this year.

Samsung is to take the digital music fight to Apple by launching its own song download service in the UK, France and Germany, the South Korean giant revealed today. Details of the service remain scarce, but we can say it will be operated by digital music distributor MusicNet, which also powers Virgin Digital, HMV, Yahoo!, iMesh and others.